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Orlando Boquete was put in prison for rape and sexual assault because of a mistaken eyewitness identification. He escaped from prison and was on the run for 10 years before being caught and re-imprisoned. 23 years after his conviction, he was exonerated after DNA evidence proved his innocence.

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Marvin Anderson went to prison after being wrongfully convicted of violently assaulting a white woman. When DNA evidence excluded him from the crime 15 years later, he was exonerated, becoming the 99th person in the U.S. to be exonerated due to DNA evidence gathered post-conviction.

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Christpoher Scott was put behind bars for a murder he did not commit in Dallas in 1997. There was no DNA evidence implicating him, just a mistaken eyewitness identification. Years later, however, another man confessed to the murder, and Scott was exonerated. He now works to help other exonerees.

Julie Baumer was caring for her infant nephew when she noticed he was acting strange. She took him to the hospital, and what was actually a childhood stroke was mistaken for shaken baby syndrome. Julie was put in prison for hurting the child. Six years later, she was exonerated.

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Jeffrey Deskovic was 16 years old when he was arrested for the murder of a female classmate he hardly knew. Although he was innocent, he was convicted of murder and spent the next decade and a half in prison. He was exonerated at age 34, robbed of most of his early adult life.

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John Thompson lived 14 years of his life on death row an innocent man. He watched 12 other men leave and never come back. Wrongfully convicted of murder, he was exonerated just before his final execution date.